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Conceptualizing dynamic challenges to global financial diffusion: Islamic finance and the grafting of sukuk

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  • Jikon Lai
  • Lena Rethel
  • Kerstin Steiner

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Following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008–2009, there has been renewed interest in the diffusion and pluralization of financial ideas and practices, and in understanding how new ideas and practices can emerge to challenge the prevalence and diffusion of dominant ones. However, existing concepts and language in the broader literature on diffusion limit our ability to analyze and assess the contestation of ideas, especially as it is sustained and transformed over time. In this paper, we develop the concept of grafting as a post-equilibrium approach to analyze the ongoing contestation of global finance at the level of market practice. We apply our conceptual framework to analyze the complex dynamics of a class of financial assets that in recent years has made significant inroads in global financial markets: sukuk, often referred to as Islamic bonds. We highlight dynamic differences in the grafting of ideas and practices from Islam and conventional finance and suggest that the grafting of sukuk is an ongoing contestation of the diffusion of global finance that contributes to the emergence of an increasingly pluralistic global economy.

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  • Jikon Lai & Lena Rethel & Kerstin Steiner, 2017. "Conceptualizing dynamic challenges to global financial diffusion: Islamic finance and the grafting of sukuk," Review of International Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(6), pages 958-979, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rripxx:v:24:y:2017:i:6:p:958-979
    DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2017.1373689
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    1. Pitluck, Aaron Z., 2023. "The interpretive and relational work of financial innovation: A resemblance of assurance in Islamic finance," SocArXiv ce7kf, Center for Open Science.
    2. Florence Dafe & Rebecca Elisabeth Husebye Engebretsen, 2023. "Tussle for space: The politics of mock‐compliance with global financial standards in developing countries," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 17(2), pages 328-345, April.
    3. Khan, Abdullah & Rizvi, Syed Aun R. & Ali, Mohsin & Haroon, Omair, 2021. "A survey of Islamic finance research – Influences and influencers," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
    4. Felicia HM Liu & Karen PY Lai, 2021. "Ecologies of green finance: Green sukuk and development of green Islamic finance in Malaysia," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(8), pages 1896-1914, November.

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